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Main St. [Street], Summerville, S.C. – Historic Photograph Print

Main St. [Street], Summerville, S.C., c1906. — historic photograph
Main St. [Street], Summerville, S.C., c1906.. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures Main St. [Street], Summerville, S.C. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Main St. [Street], Summerville, S.C.

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A dry goods store anchors the left side of this view of Main Street in Summerville, South Carolina, with the railroad station visible in the background. Summerville, a pine-shaded town northwest of Charleston, drew visitors and planters in the late 1800s who sought relief from the Lowcountry's summer heat, and the rail line helped bring them there. The Detroit Publishing Company made this glass negative around 1906 as part of its broad effort to document American towns and streets. The picture offers a plain record of how a small Southern commercial street and its rail connection looked in the early twentieth century.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesD-9" on negative. Dry goods store at left; railroad station in background. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09431. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsPlazas. Streets.United States--South Carolina--Summerville.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 718 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76677

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